SIM Card Vulnerability Could Affect Millions of Cell Phones

As many as 750 million mobile phones could be vulnerable to an encryption flaw on certain types of SIM cards, a German cryptographer and researcher warned over the weekend. Karsten Nohl, the founder of Security Research Labs in Berlin, unveiled preliminary research on his blog behind the flaw in...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : openssl (ELSA-2013-0587)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0587 advisory. - fix for CVE-2013-0169 - SSL/TLS CBC timing attack 907589 - fix for CVE-2013-0166 - DoS in OCSP signatures checking 908052 - enable compression on...

Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : openssl (ELSA-2010-0163)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0163 : Updated openssl packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Oracle Linux 3 : openssl (ELSA-2007-0813)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:0813 : Updated OpenSSL packages that correct security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements Secu...

PHP-Fusion: source code security analysis report

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP-Fusion 'PHP-Fusion' software: Incorrect User Input Filtration when Connecting to External Files File System Path Manipulation Incorrect User Input Filtration when Using Regular Expressions while Calling the pregreplace Function Using Insufficiently...

Microsoft Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling (2854544)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Advisory 2854544. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodcryptndigitalcerthandlingupdate.nasl 5347 2017-02-19 09:15:55Z cfi $ Microsoft Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling 2854544 Authors:...

Microsoft Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling (2854544)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Advisory 2854544. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Improved cryptography infrastructure and the June 2013 bulletins

It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has changed in that year- and I’ve dealt with some interesting issues during my tenure - but our goal o...

MS KB2813430: Update to Improve Cryptography and Digital Certificate Handling in Windows

The remote host is missing Microsoft KB2813430, an update that improves cryptography and digital certificate handling in Windows. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid66869; scriptversion"1.6"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:28"; scriptxrefname:"MSKB"...

OpenVPN cryptography weakness

It's possible to inject and decript ciphertext in UDP mode...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

An update for the OpenSSL component for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 for Solaris and Microsoft Windows that fixes two security issues is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Comm...

Bitcoin's Wallet Service Instawallet Hacked, suspended indefinitely

The digital currency Bitcoin has suffered yet another hack. Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet has been taken offline after a security compromise, has suspended its service indefinitely. Instawallet didn't say in a notice on its website how many bitcoins were stolen after hackers fraudulently access...

Bitcoin's Wallet Service Instawallet Hacked, suspended indefinitely

The digital currency Bitcoin has suffered yet another hack. Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet has been taken offline after a security compromise, has suspended its service indefinitely. Instawallet didn't say in a notice on its website how many bitcoins were stolen after hackers fraudulently access...

Cisco IOS cryptography vulnerability

Invalid hash algorithm implementation for type 4 passwords...

Attack Exploits Weakness in RC4 Cipher to Decrypt User Sessions

It’s been more than 25 years since Ron Rivest invented his RC4 stream cipher, and after all that time it’s still being used widely, which is something of an achievement in the crypto world. However, for more than 15 years researchers have known about a weakness in RC4 that could enable an attacke...

RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2013:0587-01

Check for the Version of openssl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2013:0587-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

RSA Conference 2013: Experts Say It's Time to Prepare for a 'Post-Crypto' World

SAN FRANCISCO–In the current climate of continuous attacks and intrusions by APT crews, government-sponsored groups and others organizations, cryptography is becoming less and less important and defenders need to start thinking about new ways to protect data on systems that they assume are...

Phil Zimmermann: 'We Really, Really Don't Have the Keys'

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico–Phil Zimmermann has seen more changes in the the threat landscape in his career than he may care to remember. The inventor of the PGP encryption software and one of the key movers in the crypto wars of the early 1990s, Zimmermann is back in the game now with a new mobile...